Serious board-game "Licenses to kill" (english version)

<p>Since 2015, the Central Documentation Service (CDS) of the University of French Guiana is engaged in the renewal of their teaching capacities. Some game segments are introduced on a regular basis into its courses in the document methodology in order to promote interactivity and the pleasure of learning.</p> <p>Following the creation of three board games on Open Access in 2017, the university library is introducing &ldquo;Licenses to Kill&rdquo;, a new teaching game created in 2018. This version in French language is avaible at this address : <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/1972975#.XQ0b6etKjIU">https://zenodo.org/record/1972975#.XQ0b6etKjIU</a>. The Game Design is made by our Guianese graphic provider Signarama (Cayenne, French Guiana).</p> <p>In 2019, this game was translated into English to be presented at the LIBER European Libraries congress at Dublin and at the IFLA International Libraries Congress at Athens. The traductors were a team of student-translators from L2 LLCER English in Theme and Journalistic Version of the University of French Guiana. Their supervisor teacher was Mr. PINDARD, a professional Traductor for Y.A.N.A Traduction (Cayenne, French Guiana)</p> <p>This game, originally made for Master and Doctorate students, is used in order to teach them difficult-to-learn and sometimes boring skills in a fun and visual way.</p> <p>In the context to the fight against plagiarism, &ldquo;Licenses to Kill&rdquo; allows the student to familiarize himself with the major intellectual property licenses (Copyright, Public Property, Creative Commons, and Copyleft) and assimilate the terms of re-use of content that he may use for academic purposes. All the game&rsquo;s files are freely available and downloadable under the Creative Commons License such as the attribution rights (BY), Non-Commercial rights (NC), and Share-Alike rights (SA) on the long-term archiving website in three different forms: JPEG, PDF and InDesign. They are modifiable and publishable, but it is requested to refrain from commercial use. Institutions interested in buying a copy of the game are offered this possibility: besides the price of the game, a fixed price of &euro;30 ($34) per game must be paid to the University of French Guiana.</p> <p>&nbsp;This amount will be reinvested in the creation of new educational and enjoyable products, which will be shared with the community!</p> <p>Contact : marie.latour@unc.nc</p>